Wanting to know how to build that World Series winner? It's not as simple as spending as much money as you can or even having the best veterans of the last decade and no youth. To build that winner you need to mix and match. You need some young blood, some proven veterans and some good minds to make things go. What I mean by some good minds is a manager that knows what he needs to do every game so he can win that game and get that much closer to the series. So, here's how you build that winner.

MANAGER: Experience
Your manager needs some experience in some way, shape or form. Maybe not World Series experience, but at least some playoff experience. It could also help if your manager was also a player at some point. That way he knows how hard it is to go out there everyday and how much pressure a player is under in the playoffs. This way he can relate to you.

PITCHING AND HITTING COACHES: Brains
Your coaches need some brains. They have know what they are doing. You can't just hire some random bums you met down at the river and begged you for money while inside of their box and their pet sock was talking to you. They need to be able to know other pitchers and hitters and tell you a plan of attack. They also need to know their own pitchers and hitters so they can help them get beter and maybe help them get some hardware.

THE TEAM: Experience, Youth and Some Fun
Your team cannot have expenses out the butt. You can't go out and pickup every 40 year old player that was good in the late 80s and early 90s. They have to be good NOW. They have to have a little experience in the playoffs and a lot of experience in strech runs.
You also have to have some young blood. No one can do it all with old veterans. Young blood keeps the team a float with it's youth and energy. Something you really need for a season that can last 7+ months. Energy.
Now, fun is what every team needs. You can't go around and have a serious team that has no fun whatsoever. It's like what the Brewers do. They have two team buses. One bus is for players that want to go on say whatever they want and not get in trouble for it. Guess what? The caoches ride this bus to and say what they want. This keeps the chemistry high and lets players be themselves and they can have a lot of fun too. The other bus is for players and coaches who don't want to speak their mind. Not many people ride that bus. You have to have some joksters. It's like with the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals. Reggie Sanders was the big jokster on that team. He was serious when he needed to be, but when he didn't need to be he made others laugh. Thats what a team needs: seriousness when seriousness is needed, but laugher the other 99.2% of the time.

There you have it. You need experience and some young blood.